Levet was born in Paris, France. He turned professional in 1988 and won the French PGA Championship that year. He first qualified for the
European Tour for the 1991 season and spent the next six years on the tour, splitting time with the
PGA Tour in 1994. He made only three cuts on the European Tour in 1996 and fell to the second-tier
Challenge Tour. He regained his European Tour card in April 1998 by winning the
Cannes Open, to which he had gained access through the French Golf Federation. In 2002, he finished second at
The Open Championship at
Muirfield, being one of four players in a playoff. He had a good chance to win, but bogeyed the final hole of the four-hole playoff to fall into sudden death with
Ernie Els, where he again bogeyed to lose to Els. After spending 2003 on the
PGA Tour, he returned to the
European Tour in 2004. He claimed the most prestigious title of his career at the
Scottish Open, and was a member of the winning
2004 European
Ryder Cup Team. Levet ended the season 5th on the Order of Merit, and returned to the PGA Tour in 2005. Levet has severe
vertigo, which almost forced him out of the game, however he has made strides to overcome the condition, and has featured in the top 50 of the
Official World Golf Rankings. In 2008 he won his fourth European Tour title, beating nineteen-year-old
Oliver Fisher in a sudden death playoff in the
MAPFRE Open de Andalucia. His fifth win on the European Tour came at the 2009
Open de España where he held off a charging
Fabrizio Zanotti, who shot a final round 65, by two strokes finishing 18 under par. With this win Levet became the leading Frenchman in terms of European Tour wins. Levet won his sixth European Tour title in July 2011 when he triumphed in his native country, at the
Alstom Open de France by one stroke from Englishman
Mark Foster and Dane
Thorbjørn Olesen. He became the 7th French player to win the tournament after
Jean-François Remésy. While celebrating his victory, Levet jumped into a lake, breaking his shin, and causing him to withdraw from
The Open Championship. ==Professional wins (15)==